Nature provides shelter for the human beings, and they are constantly surrounded by it and interact with it. If we lose nature’s shelter, we lose our self. Natural things such as mountains, rivers, air, soil etc,  plays a vital role in the life of human beings.

Earnest Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899. Hemingway played an important role in World War II. After the war was over, he retired to Cuba to fish. Hemingway’s novel The Old Man and the Sea is a story where man confronts nature. Hemingway identifies himself with the old fisherman Santiago, who cleverly fights against natural forces. Most of Hemingway’s novels revolve around a single character and his destiny. The Old man and the sea is also developed on the destiny of single man, the story of fisherman’s journey, his long and lonely struggle with a fish and the sea, and his victory in defeat.